Creative Industries: Contracts between Art and Commerce Book

Preface

Introduction: Economic Properties of Creative Activities

Part I: Supplying Simple Creative Goods

1. Artists as Apprentices

2. Artists, Dealers, and Deals

3. Artist and Gatekeeper: Trade Books, Popular Records, and Classical Music

4. Artists, Starving and Well-Fed

Part II: Supplying Complex Creative Goods

5. The Hollywood Studios Disintegrate

6. Contracts for Creative Products: Films and Plays

7. Guilds, Unions, and Faulty Contracts

8. The Nurture of Ten-Ton Turkeys

9. Creative Products Go to Market: Books and Records

10. Creative Products Go to Market: Films

Part III: Demand for Creative Goods

11. Buffs, Buzz, and Educated Tastes

12. Consumers, Critics, and Certifiers

13. Innovation, Fads, and Fashions

Part IV: Cost Conundrums

14. Covering High Fixed Costs

15. Donor-Supported Nonprofit Organizations in the Performing Arts

16. Cost Disease and Its Analgesics

Part V: The Test of Time

17. Durable Creative Goods: Rents Pursued through Time and Space

18. Payola

19. Organizing to Collect Rents: Music Copyrights

20. Entertainment Conglomerates and the Quest for Rents

21. Filtering and Storing Durable Creative Goods: Visual Arts

22. New versus Old Art: Boulez Meets Beethoven

Epilogue

Notes

Index